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to begin with this case should never
have come to trial the state has not
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produced one iota of medical evidence at
the crime Tom Robinson is charged with
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never took place
it has relied instead upon the testimony
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of two witnesses whose evidence has not
only been called into serious question
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on cross-examination but has been flatly
contradicted by the defendant there is
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circumstantial evidence to indicate that
Mayella Ewell was beaten savagely by
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someone who led almost exclusively with
his left and Tom Robinson now sits
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before you having taken the oath with
the only good hand he possesses his
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right
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nothing but pity in my heart for the
chief witness for the state she is the
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victim of cruel poverty and ignorance
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now pity does not extend so far as to
her putting a man's life at stake what
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she has done in an effort to get rid of
her own guilt now I say kill death
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gentlemen because it was guilt that
motivated her she's committed no crime
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she has merely broken a rigid and
time-honored code of our society a code
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so severe that whoever breaks it as
hounded from our midst
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his unfit to live with she must destroy
the evidence of her offence but what was
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the evidence of her offense Tom Robinson
a human being she must put Tom Robinson
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away from her Tom Robinson was to her
daily reminder of what she did
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now what did she do she attempted and he
grow she was white and she tempted a
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negro
she did something that in our society is
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unspeakable she kissed a black man not
an old uncle but a strong young Negro
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man no code method to her before she
broke it but it came crashing down on
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her afterwards
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the witnesses for the state with the
exception of the sheriff of Macon County
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have presented themselves to your
gentlemen to this court and the cynical
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confidence the bear testimony would not
be doubted confident that you gentlemen
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would go along with them on the
assumption the evil assumption that all
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Negroes lie all Negroes are basically a
moral beings all Negro men are not to be
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trusted around our women an assumption
that one associates with minds of their
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caliber and which is in itself gentlemen
a lie which I do not need to point out
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to you
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and so a quiet humble respectable Negro
who has had the unmitigated temerity to
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feel sorry for a white woman has had to
put his word against two white people's
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the defendant is not guilty but somebody
in this courtroom is now gentlemen in
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this country our courts are the great
levelers in our courts all created equal
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no idealist to believe firmly in the
integrity of our courts and our jury
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system that's no ideal to me that is a
living working reality now I am
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confident that you gentlemen will review
without passion the evidence that you
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have heard come to a decision and
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restore this man to his family
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in the name of God
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do your duty
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and the name of God believe Tom Robinson
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